This. Is. Awesome. I'll try to keep this short but my story is long and involves my now 11 year old homeschool daughter. We've had her in and out of public schools and homeschooled with disastrous results. She was abused by teachers (I know not all teachers are like that) as she has Asperger's, so her social skills aren't the best. THIS time, when I took her out last October, I let her just veg. I knew she needed decompress time. I didn't realize she was already unschooling herself, discovered Minecraft and some other things which has caused her to open up, big time. Her memory and reasoning skills are out of this world. About the time I thought it was time to "try to teach her something", I found this site and realized she was teaching herself, and I just neede to take a back seat to it. We are so much happier and you have alleviated many concerns. I was traditionally public schooled and finally went back to college at 49, and she takes an interest in my courses (mostly business & logistics). She will be what she will be and do it well. Thank you.

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Unschooling is a version, a subset, of homeschooling -- schooling at home. I also think it's the best version of homeschooling (or learning in general), because it prepares you for life, for being an entrepreneur, for learning anything, for being autonomous.

What makes unschooling different from other homeschooling methods? Often when people homeschool, they just do school at home -- do a curriculum with math, science, reading, history, etc. at home, often with similar teaching methods and books.

But that doesn't take advantage of the freedom of homeschooling! We can do whatever we want, because there are no rules, no one to tell us we're doing it wrong, which means we can get creative as hell.

Unschooling is a version, a subset, of homeschooling -- schooling at home. I also think it's the best version of homeschooling (or learning in general), because it prepares you for life, for being an entrepreneur, for learning anything, for being autonomous.

What makes unschooling different from other homeschooling methods? Often when people homeschool, they just do school at home -- do a curriculum with math, science, reading, history, etc. at home, often with similar teaching methods and books.

But that doesn't take advantage of the freedom of homeschooling! We can do whatever we want, because there are no rules, no one to tell us we're doing it wrong, which means we can get creative as hell.